Dixit Bhargav
|Published 12/01/2023
St George’s Park will host the third SA20 2023 match.
The third match of SA20 2023 will be played between Sunrisers Eastern Cape and Pretoria Capitals in Gqeberha tonight. Third of the six venues to host the inaugural season of the tournament, St George’s will be hosting a T20 after 10 and a half months.
Both the participating teams will be playing their first-ever match on Thursday as all the focus will be on high-profile players from both the teams namely Aiden Markram, Tristan Stubbs, Rilee Rossouw, Phil Salt, James Neesham, Marco Jansen, Adil Rashid and Anrich Nortje.
Although the match is anticipated to be followed across the globe, it will particularly be followed by the fans of Indian Premier League franchises in Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals.
Highest T20 run-scorers at the St George’s Park are Jon-Jon Smuts (801), Davy Jacobs (598), Colin Ingram (528), Christiaan Jonker (495) and Ashwell Prince (464). With Jacobs and Prince no longer participants of the T20 circuit around the world, details of best T20 batters among active cricketers have been provided below:
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Highest T20 wicket-takers at this stadium are Sisanda Magala (28), Smuts (27), Rusty Theron (25), Junior Dala (22) and Andrew Birch (21). Best bowlers here among active cricketers are:
The 200-run mark has been surpassed only once in more than 100 Gqeberha T20s over the years. The above mentioned third-highest innings totals is also the highest successful T20 run-chase at this venue. It all had happened during a Mzansi Super League match when former Australia batter Ben Dunk had scored 99* (54) to register a titular effort in chasing down a 189-run target more than three years ago.
Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who is currently into his fifth year as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. His first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.
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